From the Autumn Preserves Pantry – Apple, Fig and Pear Chutney with Cardamom – I am well into my preserving season now, and all sorts of jams, jellies, cheeses, chutney, bottled fruits, liqueurs, pickles and relishes have already been made and are sitting with their paper mob caps and labels in the pantry…….waiting for Christmas,…
Easter
Sepia Saturday with Be-Ro, Tea Time Treats and Rich Jam and Coconut Cake Recipe
Sepia Saturday with Be-Ro, Tea Time Treats and Rich Jam and Coconut Cake Recipe It’s Saturday and it’s Sepia, as in Sepia Saturday, the weekly baking challenge where I attempt to bake my way through eighty years of Be-Ro cookbooks……although, I have not posted a Be-Ro bake for the last three weeks due to travelling and other…
The Big Fair Bake and Tropical Wholefoods: Tropical Fruit Flapjack Slices for a Tea Time Treat!
The Big Fair Bake and Tropical Wholefoods: Tropical Fruit Flapjack Slices for a Tea Time Treat! It’s been a busy month for me and I am way behind with my Sepia Saturday posts; for those of you who don’t know what they are, it’s my weekly attempt to bake my way through seventy to eighty…
Celebrate Better Breakfast Week with New Zealand Honey and my Fluffy Porridge Pancakes Recipe!
Celebrate Better Breakfast Week with New Zealand Honey and my Fluffy Porridge Pancakes Recipe! Breakfast has to be my favourite meal of the day; it’s the only time I get to eat what I really love, and not feel guilty about it! I mean, what other meal of the day consists of crispy bacon, fried eggs,…
Fish on Friday, Fresh Figs and a Recipe for Potted Crab – Crab Rillettes
Fish on Friday, Fresh Figs and a Recipe for Potted Crab – Crab Rillettes It’s been an exciting day, we have guests, three lovely girls arrived yesterday for a week’s holiday and they have settled in already, and even laid three eggs today……….yes, it’s not my daughter and her two friends (although they are lovely…
Vintage Plates, Organic September ~ My Family Recipe for Rustic Style Potato Salad
Vintage Plates ~ Organic September ~ My Family Recipe for Rustic Style Potato Salad I am home after a long day but enjoyable day; I have been to Blog Camp in London, and it was just brilliant to meet all my food blogger friends, as well as learn new blogging tips and helpful information about…
Sepia Saturday, Happy Baking Days with Tala and Be-Ro: Strawberry Iced Butterfly Fairy Cakes
Sepia Saturday, Happy Baking Days with Tala and Be-Ro: Strawberry Iced Butterfly Fairy Cakes When Tala approached me recently and asked if I would like to “test drive” some of their bakeware and baking accessories, I was thrilled; the reason is this, I was brought up on Tala bakeware, both my grandmother and mother used…
Sepia Saturday – Seventy Years of Baking with Be-Ro: Raspberry Cheesecake Muffins
Sepia Saturday – Seventy Years of Baking with Be-Ro: Raspberry Cheesecake Muffins It’s Saturday and that can only mean one thing, it’s my weekly Sepia Saturday post, where I attempt to bake my way through seventy years of Be-Ro cookbooks! For those of you who don’t know what Be-Ro is, or what I am talking about when I mention Be-Ro cookbooks, below…
Be-ro London “Bath” Buns
This Be-Ro bake is a NEW recipe for me, London Buns, or London “Bath” Buns, and I can honestly say that I had NEVER made these before, and I am not sure if my mum or grandmother have made them either; but, I DO remember trying something similar in a café before, as well as a church…
Courvoisier Cognac Comes Home! A Team GB Golden Celebration Party with Courvoisier Punch
Courvoisier Cognac Comes Home! A Team GB Golden Celebration Party with Courvoisier Punch When I was asked recently if I would like to host a party and that I would be sent some complimentary Courvoisier cognac with all the ingredients to make a Courvoisier Punch for my party, I accepted with alacrity! I mean, I am a…
Be-Ro Australian Crunchies (Traybake) – School Lunch Box Treats!
This recipe is taken from the 35th edition of one of my Be-Ro books, and is under the section of “cooking for children”, it’s Australian Crunchie, an easy tray bake biscuit, and is loved by all who tries one! Cornflakes, coconut and cocoa powder are the main ingredients in this recipe, with a naughty…
Fish on Friday with Pink Grapefruit and Prawn Salad suitable for 5:2 Diet and Weight Watchers
Fish on Friday Pink Grapefruit and Prawn Salad (The 5:2 Diet and Weight Watchers) Here I am again with my regular Fish on Friday post, but it’s a day early and is on Thursday! And this week I am featuring one of my favourite salads – a healthy and flavour packed recipe with fruit, seafood, salad…
5:2 Diet, Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe, Meal Plan Ideas and Calorie Counters
5:2 Diet, Fresh Fruit Salad Recipe, Meal Plan Ideas and Calorie Counters I posted my low-calorie soup recipe yesterday, 5:2 Diet, Fast Days & Feast Days and Roast Tomato & Garlic Soup Recipe (70 Calories), which is what I eat on my low-calorie (fast days) and I have done for many years……and is suitable for the…
Be-Ro Melting Moments (Biscuits/Cookies)
My much-loved and treasured Be-Ro cookbook collection that got me thinking; I use any one of them almost weekly, and even though I suspect I know many of the recipes of by heart, I still take immense pleasure from opening their old, worn covers and choosing what I will bake or cook……the memories flood back…
Search for a Connoisseur & Sharp’s Brewery: Smoked Mackerel with Hot Beetroot and Horseradish Cream
Search for a Connoisseur & Sharp’s Brewery Smoked Mackerel with Hot Beetroot and Horseradish Cream I am always up for a cookery challenge and when I was approached by Sharp’s Brewery recently and asked if I would like to develop a recipe to be matched with a BEER, I was intrigued and very interested! I know that the usual pairing…
